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A method is presented for estimating the background at a given location on a sky map by interpolating the estimated background from a set of concentric annuli which surround this location. If the background is nonuniform but smoothly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 James Theiler , Jeff Bloch

Sub-millimetre observations suggest that the filaments of interstellar clouds have rather uniform widths and can be described with the so-called Plummer profiles. The shapes of the filament profiles are linked to their physical state.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Juvela , J. Malinen , T. Lunttila

A new physically based method to estimate hemispheric-directional reflectance factor (HDRF) from lightweight multispectral cameras that have a downwelling irradiance sensor is presented. It combines radiometry with photogrammetric computer…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-05-10 Klaus Schneider-Zapp , Manuel Cubero-Castan , Dai Shi , Christoph Strecha

A layer of granular material on a vertically vibrating sawtooth-shaped base exhibits horizontal flow whose speed and direction depend on the parameters specifying the system in a complex manner. Discrete-particle simulations reveal that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Levanon , D. C. Rapaport

We derive an analytic expression for the height correlation function of a rough surface based on the inverse wave scattering method of Kirchhoff theory. The expression directly relates the height correlation function to diffuse scattered…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-02 M. Zamani , F. Shafiei , S. M. Fazeli , M. C. Downer , G. R. Jafari

We study multifractal properties of wave functions for a one-parameter family of quantum maps displaying the whole range of spectral statistics intermediate between integrable and chaotic statistics. We perform extensive numerical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-03-18 J. Martin , O. Giraud , B. Georgeot

Recent Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) observations at 115-175 MHz of a field at medium Galactic latitudes (centered at the bright quasar 3C196) have shown striking filamentary structures in polarization that extend over more than 4 degrees…

The results of simultaneous measurements of noctilucent clouds (NLC) position in a number of ground-based locations are presented. Observational data of 14 bright NLC events over 5 years is used for building the altitude maps of cloud…

Regression methods based in Machine Learning Algorithms (MLA) have become an important tool for data analysis in many different disciplines. In this work, we use MLA in an astrophysical context; our goal is to measure the mean longitudinal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 J. C. Ramirez-Velez , C. Yañez-Marquez , J. P. Cordova-Barbosa

We present a method to study the penumbral fine structure using data obtained by the spectropolarimeter onboard HINODE. For the first time, the penumbral filaments can be considered as resolved in spectropolarimetric measurements. This…

The control of the optical quality of a laser beam requires a complex amplitude measurement able to deal with strong modulus variations and potentially highly perturbed wavefronts. The method proposed here consists in an extension of phase…

We present a new method for dealing with geometrical selection effects in galaxy surveys while using a multifractal framework. The power of multifractal analysis lies in its connection to higher order moments, in that it not only probes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Cristiano Sabiu , Luis Teodoro , Martin Hendry

Using only lidar or radar an accurate cloud boundary height estimate is often not possible. The combination of lidar and radar can give a reliable cloud boundary estimate in a much broader range of cases. However, also this combination with…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Victor Venema , Herman Russchenberg , Arnoud Apituley , Andre van Lammeren , Leo Ligthart

Fluctuations in the return time statistics of a dynamical system can be described by a new spectrum of dimensions. Comparison with the usual multifractal analysis of measures is presented, and difference between the two corresponding sets…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Hadyn , J. Luevano , G. Mantica , S. Vaienti

We present the design, fabrication and measured performance of a hierarchical sinuous-antenna phased array coupled to transition-edge-sensor (TES) bolometers for measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To efficiently cover a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Ari Cukierman , Adrian T. Lee , Christopher Raum , Aritoki Suzuki , Benjamin Westbrook

We consider the reconstruction of the interface of compact, connected "clouds" from satellite or airborne light intensity measurements. In a two dimensional setting, the cloud is modeled by an interface, locally represented as a graph, and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Guillaume Bal , JiaMing Chen , Anthony Davis

We demonstrate a new multi-wavelength technique for two-dimensional parametric modelling of galaxy surface-brightness profiles, which we have incorporated into the widely used software GALFIT. Our new method, named GALFITM, extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Marina Vika , Steven P. Bamford , Boris Haeussler , Alex L. Rojas , Andrea Borch , Robert C. Nichol

Multifractal analysis techniques are applied to patterns in several abstract expressionist artworks, paintined by various artists. The analysis is carried out on two distinct types of structures: the physical patterns formed by a specific…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 J. R. Mureika , C. C. Dyer , G. C. Cupchik

In present paper, we investigate the multifractality signatures in hourly time series extracted from CoRoT spacecraft database. Our analysis is intended to highlight the possibility that astrophysical time series can be members of a…

Multifractal properties of the energy time series of short $\alpha$-helix structures, specifically from a polyalanine family, are investigated through the MF-DFA technique ({\it{multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis}}). Estimates for…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 P. H. Figueirêdo , E. Nogueira , M. A. Moret , Sérgio Coutinho